Police and doughnuts. For real!
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https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/p...
TLDR: Policeman does the chavvy switcheroo at the self-service checkout, takes £10 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, but pays for 7p carrot!
TLDR: Policeman does the chavvy switcheroo at the self-service checkout, takes £10 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, but pays for 7p carrot!
Honestly what a stupid thing to do to risk your career and humiliation to nick a packet of doughnuts. Insane. I do think Police like a doughnut though. Last year I saw a marked police patrol car parked on double yellow lines outside a Tesco on a busy London main road. The two officers were inside buying krispy creams. I grassed them up as that sort of stuff enrages me and I'm sure if they'd seen a member of the public do it they'd have nicked them. Anyway, I got a letter back saying they would "receive some training"!
Be interesting to know why there isn't sufficient evidence for it to be a crime, too.
There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Gixer968CS said:
Honestly what a stupid thing to do to risk your career and humiliation to nick a packet of doughnuts. Insane. I do think Police like a doughnut though. Last year I saw a marked police patrol car parked on double yellow lines outside a Tesco on a busy London main road. The two officers were inside buying krispy creams. I grassed them up as that sort of stuff enrages me and I'm sure if they'd seen a member of the public do it they'd have nicked them. Anyway, I got a letter back saying they would "receive some training"!
The police don't enforce minor parking. There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
La Liga said:
Be interesting to know why there isn't sufficient evidence for it to be a crime, too.
There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Agreed - there's a fraud to record thereGixer968CS said:
Honestly what a stupid thing to do to risk your career and humiliation to nick a packet of doughnuts. Insane. I do think Police like a doughnut though. Last year I saw a marked police patrol car parked on double yellow lines outside a Tesco on a busy London main road. The two officers were inside buying krispy creams. I grassed them up as that sort of stuff enrages me and I'm sure if they'd seen a member of the public do it they'd have nicked them. Anyway, I got a letter back saying they would "receive some training"!
The police don't enforce minor parking. There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Bigends said:
La Liga said:
Be interesting to know why there isn't sufficient evidence for it to be a crime, too.
There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Agreed - there's a fraud to record thereGixer968CS said:
Honestly what a stupid thing to do to risk your career and humiliation to nick a packet of doughnuts. Insane. I do think Police like a doughnut though. Last year I saw a marked police patrol car parked on double yellow lines outside a Tesco on a busy London main road. The two officers were inside buying krispy creams. I grassed them up as that sort of stuff enrages me and I'm sure if they'd seen a member of the public do it they'd have nicked them. Anyway, I got a letter back saying they would "receive some training"!
The police don't enforce minor parking. There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Sounds implausible, but may have been enough to sway the CPS.
La Liga said:
Bigends said:
La Liga said:
Be interesting to know why there isn't sufficient evidence for it to be a crime, too.
There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Agreed - there's a fraud to record thereGixer968CS said:
Honestly what a stupid thing to do to risk your career and humiliation to nick a packet of doughnuts. Insane. I do think Police like a doughnut though. Last year I saw a marked police patrol car parked on double yellow lines outside a Tesco on a busy London main road. The two officers were inside buying krispy creams. I grassed them up as that sort of stuff enrages me and I'm sure if they'd seen a member of the public do it they'd have nicked them. Anyway, I got a letter back saying they would "receive some training"!
The police don't enforce minor parking. There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Sounds implausible, but may have been enough to sway the CPS.
Gixer968CS said:
Honestly what a stupid thing to do to risk your career and humiliation to nick a packet of doughnuts. Insane. I do think Police like a doughnut though. Last year I saw a marked police patrol car parked on double yellow lines outside a Tesco on a busy London main road. The two officers were inside buying krispy creams. I grassed them up as that sort of stuff enrages me and I'm sure if they'd seen a member of the public do it they'd have nicked them. Anyway, I got a letter back saying they would "receive some training"!
I wonder how that 'training' went:'Here lads, have a look at the letter that jobsworth sent in'
La Liga said:
he police don't enforce minor parking.
There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
I've seen some police apologist posts on here, but this really pushing it.There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Gman20 said:
La Liga said:
he police don't enforce minor parking.
There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
I've seen some police apologist posts on here, but this really pushing it.There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Don Roque said:
Gixer968CS said:
Honestly what a stupid thing to do to risk your career and humiliation to nick a packet of doughnuts. Insane. I do think Police like a doughnut though. Last year I saw a marked police patrol car parked on double yellow lines outside a Tesco on a busy London main road. The two officers were inside buying krispy creams. I grassed them up as that sort of stuff enrages me and I'm sure if they'd seen a member of the public do it they'd have nicked them. Anyway, I got a letter back saying they would "receive some training"!
I wonder how that 'training' went:'Here lads, have a look at the letter that jobsworth sent in'
Don Roque said:
I wonder how that 'training' went:
'Here lads, have a look at the letter that jobsworth sent in'
Quite - coppers work some pretty poor shift patterns and often run hours over their shift time, I don’t begrudge them a quick energy boost. I’d imagine the training session ended with “what a knob”. 'Here lads, have a look at the letter that jobsworth sent in'
La Liga said:
Man, can’t park where they want, can’t have discounted doughnuts.
Buzz kill.
One of the things I do in my job is give a talk to each year’s graduate class about “how to operate” in banking. It’s something outside the regulations, policy etc, more about what they need to know if they want to go from where they are to where I am.Buzz kill.
In recent years I’ve given them a set of pictures of ex-colleagues of mine, who are now in jail, on the run, or banned from ever working in finance again, and the lesson that I give them is that these were good people, just like them who in each case they started out breaking a little rule, something that seemed too trivial to care about.
I end by telling them that the rules aren’t given with a wink and a nod, they are to be followed, without exception, as I won’t allow any of them, no matter how good, to get our name on the front pages of the papers for breaking the law.
I naively assumed that management in the police operated the same way, but it seems not to be the case. From what we see on here it’s more the case that they openly mock anyone who expects them to follow the rules.
Bigends said:
7p would be about the value of a single carrot. Yopu wouldnt buy a bag of carrots for 7p and then the label accidentally transfers itself onto the doughnut box. Hes printed a ticket for the carrot on the self service scales and stuck it on the doughnut box from the sounds of it. Not sure what the possible error could be
It would presumably need proof that he printed the ticket and stuck it on the box. It could have been that somebody else did it and then backed out and put the box back, he then picks it up and pays for it along with other items without noticing the price it rung up at.Gman20 said:
La Liga said:
he police don't enforce minor parking.
There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
I've seen some police apologist posts on here, but this really pushing it.There's a balance to having the police car immediately available to go an emergency, vs parking up elsewhere. Especially in London.
Personally I'd rather have them as near to it as possible.
Greendubber said:
Not really, would you moan if it was a paramedic who didnt want to be a 5 minute walk from their vehicle? Could be off to a cardiac arrest, just the same as a police officer could be.
So your argument is that police can break the law if they deem it convenient?I don’t think that that’s a workable model, but if it was, it needs to be covered by changing the law as to how police operate.
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